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What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology
Book • 2012
In 'What is Life?
How Chemistry Becomes Biology', Addy Pross delves into the fundamental differences between animate and inanimate matter.
The book discusses the unique characteristics of life, such as teleonomy (the purpose of replication) and high order despite the second law of thermodynamics.
Pross explores the concept of abiogenesis, the process by which life emerges from non-living matter, and introduces the hypothesis of dynamic kinetic stability (DKS) to explain how replicating molecules evolve into complex biological systems.
He argues that the sequence of replication, mutation, complexification, selection, and evolution is not exclusive to living organisms but also applies to purely chemical systems, bridging the gap between chemistry and biology.
How Chemistry Becomes Biology', Addy Pross delves into the fundamental differences between animate and inanimate matter.
The book discusses the unique characteristics of life, such as teleonomy (the purpose of replication) and high order despite the second law of thermodynamics.
Pross explores the concept of abiogenesis, the process by which life emerges from non-living matter, and introduces the hypothesis of dynamic kinetic stability (DKS) to explain how replicating molecules evolve into complex biological systems.
He argues that the sequence of replication, mutation, complexification, selection, and evolution is not exclusive to living organisms but also applies to purely chemical systems, bridging the gap between chemistry and biology.
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